Indiana launches Pete Dye Golf Trail

Add Pete Dye to the list of architects who have had golf trails named in their honor.

Dye’s home state of Indiana has begun marketing the Pete Dye Golf Trail, a collection of seven of the architects’ design. The trail stretches from Culver in northern Indiana to French Lick, about 100 miles south of Indianapolis. The idea is similar to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama and Jack Nicklaus’ Bear Trace courses in Tennessee.

Indiana is home to more Dye-designed courses than any other state. The 85-year-old Dye, a longtime resident of the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, picked the seven courses that make up the trail.

Moving from north to south, the trail courses are:

Mystic Hills (Culver), which has starkly different nines thanks to the sandy terrain on which the front side was built;